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Formal and Functional Restrictions on the Productivity of Word Formation Rules (WFRs)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Elżbieta Górska
Elżbieta Górska
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of English, ul. Marchlewskiego 124/126, 61-874 Poznan, Poland.
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Abstract

A better understanding of problem of productivity of WERs is necessary not only to define the concept of a WEF, but also to find a “place” for the WF component in the model of generative grammar. The paper analyese one approach, in which the productivity is measured in terms of competence restrictions, on the basis of Nouns of Location in Polish. It is claimed that the productivity of a WFR is determined not only by relations of a base to an affix, but also by interrelations within the system of WFRs. A functional and/or formal conspiracy of WFRs may have an inhibitory and facilitatory effect on productivity. Thus, the concept of competence restrictions on the Productivity of WFRs developed so far is too narrow.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , June 1982 , pp. 77 - 89
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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